![]() ![]() Before there was a Disney, this roadside attraction drew 100,000 visitors a year. McKee opened the garden in 1932, bringing together a collection of waterlilies, orchids, plus strange and wonderful objects. You’ll probably find a Waldo Sexton angle to every Vero history story, and there’s definitely one to lovely McKee Botanical Garden, 350 US-1, Vero Beach, which is worth visiting. (Photo: Bonnie Gross) Discovering Vero Beach local history: McKee Botanical Garden Water lilies at McKee Botanical Garden, Vero Beach. You can tell that people staying here come back for their week or weeks year after year - like the owners of the car in the lot with Wisconsin plates that read VERO BCH. The Driftwood Inn feels more like a community than a hotel, and that’s because many of its rooms were sold as time share units decades ago. My husband David LOVES the place.Ĭannons and ceramic tiles are among the items used to decorate the exterior of the Driftwood Inn in Vero Beach. We could hear the waves from our room and were surrounded by the marvelously decorated original part of the inn. But the room is paneled with pecky cypress and it was steps to the beach. Our efficiency looked like the 1970s, with a tiny galley kitchen and bath. The rooms at the Driftwood Inn Vero Beach are not fancy I’d call them rustic and nostalgically dated. ![]() The complex overlooks a beautiful stretch of beach and not far off shore, a flagpole in the water marks the sites of a sunken ship – the Breconshire, which went down in 1894. True to its name, the original buildings are covered in driftwood and decorated with mosaics, bells, cannons, striking ceramic tiles and remnants from various churches, trains, ships and schools.ĭriftwood Inn mosaic includes year of its founding. Today, some original parts of the Driftwood Inn Vero Beach are preserved and even if you don’t stay there, you should dine at Waldo’s just to admire the place. One of the salvaged artifacts used to decorate the Historic Driftwood Inn Vero Beach. This hotel jump-started Vero’s tourism business. He opened the Driftwood Inn in the 1930s and in 1947 added a restaurant now known as Waldo’s. The historic section of the Driftwood Inn in Vero Beach. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Driftwood Inn Vero Beach is eclectic and eccentric, just like its legendary founder, Waldo Sexton, who came to the Vero Beach area in 1914 and became a citrus farmer, dairy farmer, business leader, developer and so much more. Original section of Driftwood Inn with the historic Waldo’s Restaurant. There are a lot of options for hotels in Vero Beach, including the very popular-with-families Disney Resort eight miles north of town as well as luxury resorts Kimpton Vero Beach Resort, and Spa and Costa d’Este Resort and Spa.īut I think the true Vero Beach experience is staying at the Historic Driftwood Inn and Resort, 3150 Ocean Drive, Vero Beach. ![]() (Photo: Bonnie Gross) Waldo Sexton and the Driftwood Inn Vero Beach The Driftwood Inn Vero Beach overlooking the Atlantic. ![]()
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